[niko]

After far too long away from the night sky I pointed my ED80 and camera heavenward on the weekend to capture these two.

M42 is a stack of a handful of 10sec and 30sec exposures though I'm not happy with the focus. Only remembered how to work the focus graphing in DSLR Focus after I'd taken these - doh! Also, haven't got around to mounting my Bartinov masks on anything I can use. Nor did I have enough extra weights to try out my autoguider.

Pretty slack efforts I realise but was happy to be out there just giving it a go because I felt so rusty.

thanks for looking (and not laughing!)

niko